Summary
Carmine Paolino is a founder and CEO with 15 years of experience building production-grade AI, distributed systems, and big data platforms across finance, energy, retail and nonprofits from Berlin. He co-founded Freshflow to apply ML-driven forecasting that cuts grocery waste at scale, and now builds developer-facing tools like chatwithwork.com and rubyllm.com while leading a new venture. Technically fluent across Python, Scala, C/C++, Java and cloud-native stacks, he has shipped end-to-end ML systems in Kubernetes/AWS, optimized high-throughput prediction pipelines, and contributed build and release improvements to notable open-source projects such as Soundflower. Trained in AI (VU Amsterdam) and published on distributed systems, he combines research experience with pragmatic engineering, a bias for reusable solutions, and a creative streak as a music producer and photographer.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science with specialization in Artificial Intelligence, Master's Degree Computer Science with specialization in Artificial Intelligence at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Spanish, English, Italian